Thursday, May 28, 2015

It's a small world after all

     Before we left Arizona, we drove down to Mesa to visit some longtime good friends who lived in Dryden, NY for awhile while we lived there. We helped them move in and became fast friends. Merrillee served as one of my counselors in the Relief Society presidency in the Ithaca Ward and Kelvin served on the stake high council with Russ. We found out while there that their youngest daughter, Kellee was serving a mission and would be in Nauvoo this summer. Since arriving here, we have been busy trying to learn our duties and our way around the community. We just hadn't taken the time to look up Kellee.
     For those who are LDS and on FamilySearch, you can access a site called RelativeFinder.org to find interesting matches for people related to you. It was suggested to us Nauvoo missionaries that we could log on and join the Nauvoo2015 group to find out who might be serving here that might be related. I tried it and Lo and Behold! up popped Kellee's name! I e-mailed her mom to tell her and she e-mailed back that Kellee was actually in nearby Carthage (also in the Nauvoo mission). Russ and I took time before our temple shift today to drive over and look her up. Here she is! It's really amazing how small the world can be sometimes.

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